Richard Donner
Richard Donner: an underrated director
Suggestions that Donner was a director-for-hire rather than a true auteur are harsh and inaccurate
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
Michael Gove’s new definition of “extremism” is extremely silly
We cannot define such a vague term with such vague terms
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
